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Many media players are compatible with only a few formats, and users are forced to install several programs if they want to play different types of files. With VLC Media Player, however, you won’t need to do this because this free video player accepts all formats from a wide variety of inputs. In addition to playing many audio and video formats, including Blu-Ray, the latest version can also act as a server to stream both multicast and unicast content in either IPv4 or IPv6. The changes in this new movie player put it ahead of the competition. 


Features:
  • Accepts all types of input, including streaming media, discs, files, webcams and other devices
  • Plays most codecs without the need of installing other codec packs
  • Zipped file playback
  • Live recording
  • Finer speed controls
  • Frame by frame support
  • Video scaling in full screen
  • Converts media from one format to another
  • Compatible with all computer operating systems

Installation

Installing the player took only a few seconds although you can take slightly longer if you want to select or deselect some of the many options it offers, including installing Web browser plugin. 

Using VLC

Considering the wide variety of options VLC Media Player has and the multiple formats it accepts, the movie player is relatively light and fast. We found it easy to interact with the player, and its buttons were responsive. We set the free video recorder as the default player.
The program uses tabs to divide the various options it offers, each of which provides options for making relevant adjustments. For example, users can choose various effects and output modules in the audio tab while the video tab provides options for performing deinterlacing, running on Accelerated Video Output and creating different effects in real time.
We found it convenient to use the keyboard shortcuts the program supports. You can use different key combinations to perform most of the things you can do with a mouse. The free video player does a great job at keeping unused features out of the way but easy to access. While many people will be satisfied using VLC Media Player as their favorite movie player, the program has more functions.
We could customize the player to suit our preferences, including choosing toolbar elements and the position of the toolbar itself. We liked the program’s ability to display the relevant portion immediately even when we paused a video, which made it easy to locate desired sections before playing.
These features would make little sense if the sound quality were not commensurate. Fortunately, VLC Media Player produces high quality audio and accepts several configurations, including adjusting the equalizer and setting surround sound. We particularly enjoyed the sound coming from the headphone.

Pros

  • Easy to install and use
  • Plays everything
  • Records and converts media
  • Customizable
  • Free and cross-platform

Cons

  • Plays in the background when media file is clicked
VLC Media Player is suitable for both basic and advanced users, which makes it a well-rounded program.
Software Product Description
VLC (initially VideoLAN Client) is a free video player for various audio and video formats (MPEG-1, MPEG-2, MPEG-4, DivX, mp3, ogg, ...) as well as DVDs, VCDs, and various streaming protocols. It can also be used as a server to stream in unicast or multicast in IPv4 or IPv6 on a high-bandwidth network.

Features:

  • Free, Open Source and cross-platform
  • Independant of systems codecs to support most video types
  • Live recording
  • Instant pausing and Frame-by-Frame support
  • Finer speed controls
  • New HD codecs (AES3, Dolby Digital Plus, TrueHD, Blu-Ray Linear PCM, Real Video 3.0 and 4.0, ...)
  • New formats (Raw Dirac, M2TS, ...) and major improvements in many formats...
  • New Dirac encoder and MP3 fixed-point encoder
  • Video scaling in fullscreen
  • RTSP Trickplay support
  • Zipped file playback
  • Customizable toolbars
  • Easier encoding GUI in Qt interface
  • Better integration in Gtk environments
  • MTP devices on linux
  • AirTunes streaming
  • New skin for the skins2 interface

Input formats:

  • MPEG (ES,PS,TS,PVA,MP3)
  • ID3 tags
  • AVI
  • ASF / WMV / WMA
  • MP4 / MOV / 3GP
  • OGG / OGM / Annodex
  • Matroska (MKV)
  • WAV (incuding DTS)
  • Raw Audio: DTS, AAC, AC3/A52
  • Raw DV
  • FLAC
  • FLV (Flash)

Input media:

  • UDP/RTP Unicast
  • UDP/RTP Multicast
  • HTTP / FTP
  • MMS
  • File
  • DVD 1
  • VCD
  • SVCD 2
  • Audio CD (without DTS)
  • MPEG encoder 3
  • Video acquisition

Video:

Decoders:

  • MPEG-1/2
  • DIVX (1/2/3)
  • MPEG-4, DivX 5, XviD, 3ivX D4
  • H.264
  • Sorenson 1/3 (Quicktime)
  • DV
  • Cinepak
  • Theora (alpha 3)
  • H.263 / H.263i
  • MJPEG (A/B)
  • WMV 1/2
  • WMV 3 / WMV-9 / VC-1 4, 5
  • Indeo Video v3 (IV32)

Subtitles:

  • DVD 6
  • SVCD / CVD
  • DVB
  • OGM
  • Matroska
  • Text files (MicroDVD, SubRIP, SubViewer, SSA1-5, SAMI, VPlayer)
  • Vobsub

Filters:

  • Deinterlace
  • Cropping
  • Image wall
  • Image adjust
  • Rotate/Mirror
  • Logo overlay
  • Magnification
  • Image distortion
  • Bluescreen
  • RSS/Atom feeds

Outputs:

  • Native DirectX, GDI
  • SDL
  • ASCII Art

Audio:

Decoders:

  • MPEG Layer 1/2
  • MP3
  • AC3 - A/52
  • DTS
  • LPCM
  • AAC
  • Vorbis
  • WMA 1/2
  • WMA 3 7
  • ADPCM
  • DV Audio
  • FLAC
  • QDM2/QDMC (QuickTime)
  • MACE
  • Real Audio 8
  • Speex

Filters:

  • Visualization effects
  • Equalizer

Outputs:

  • Native DirectX WaveOut
  • S/PDIF DirectX WaveOut
  • Multi-channel DirectX WaveOut
  • SDL

Streaming:

Interfaces and control:

  • Default WxWidgets
  • Qt 4
  • Skins
  • Web
  • Telnet
  • Command line

Miscellaneous:

  • SAP/SDP announces
  • Bonjour protocol
  • Mozilla/Firefox plugin
  • ActiveX plugin
  • SVCD Menus
  • Localization
  • CD-Text 10
  • CDDB CD info 11
  • IPv6
  • IGMPv3 Win XP
  • CPU acceleration


VLC Media Player 2.2.1

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If you want to play video or music files in just about any format, VLC media player is probably your answer. VLC media player is the most successful free open source multimedia player out there with over 500 million downloads according to the developers. In particular, VLC media player is a great alternative to , iTunes, and RealPlayer. It's lightweight, fast, easy to use and most importantly, plays almost anything.


Still the most powerful free media player


It was two and a half years since version 1.0 was released before version 2 ("Twoflower") brought a new interface, faster decoding and support for more formats and the ability to play HD and BluRay. It still remains however the most stable, flexible and lightweight audio and video player around today. While other media players will play unusual formats after downloading a codec, or simply refuse to play things, VLC media player handles tons of formats, from MPEG to FLV and RMBV files. Version 2 has seen some important additions too such as support for 10 bit codes plus multi-threaded decoding for H.264, MPEG-4/Xvid and WebM.
Also useful is the fact that you can use VLC media player to preview files you are downloading since it plays incomplete parts of video files. VLC media player is not just for video playback however. It also offers superb integration with video channel streaming services such as Channels.com giving you access to channels such as ESPN, Reuters and National Geographic. Just right-click or CMD-click on the playlist, select Services Discovery and Channels.com. Channels.com will then appear in your VLC media player playlist. Click on it to reveal the the different categories of channels available. Click on the category you want and a drop down list of all available channels appears in VLC media player. Just click on the channel you want to watch and streaming should begin almost immediately.

Easy to control and create playlists


VLC media player also has great hotkey support and if you take the time to learn the shortcuts so it can be controlled without touching your mouse. If you're watching DVDs or video files through it, this is not an issue. For music, it plays more or less any file and features an equalizer and playlist creation. VLC media player isn't as intuitive as iTunes as a media manager, but it's a much more flexible player in terms of file formats. You can even use VLC to convert your files, and on top of all the formats and physical media it will play, many streaming protocols and TV capture cards are supported.
VLC media player makes it easy to add subtitles to your video files too - just add the SRT file to the folder where your video is kept, and it will automatically play with subtitles.
Finally, the interface has been somewhat improved in version 2 on Mac. In fact, the Mac interface is now considerably slicker than on Windows with a single window for everything. However, it's only available in 2 colors: Lion grey and QTX black. There are also new extensions support and better Lion integration. The preferences menu is still comprehensive without being overwhelming, and there is extensive documentation online.
Don't forget to check out some of our articles such as VLC media player v KMPlayer, How to rotate a video with VLC media player, How to sync audio with video in VLC media player and How to use subtitles with VLC media player.

The ultimate free mutiformat media player


There's very little to fault with VLC media player. It's a superb lightweight media player that will successfully play the most stubborn files where other players fail.

Recent changes

  • With faster decoding on multi-core, GPU, and mobile hardware and the ability to open more formats, notably professional, HD and 10bits codecs, 2.0 is a major upgrade for VLC
  • Twoflower has a new rendering pipeline for video, with higher quality subtitles, and new video filters to enhance your videos
  • It supports many new devices and BluRay Discs (experimental)
  • Completely reworked Mac and Web interfaces and improvements in the other interfaces make VLC easier than ever to use
  • Twoflower fixes several hundreds of bugs, in more than 7000 commits from 160 volunteers

  • Version 2.0.5:

  • Rework and fixes of the Mac OS X interface
  • Fix Pulseaudio initial synchronization
  • Fix MKV, SWF, AIFF and subtitles demuxer crashes
  • Translations updates and new Welsh translation
  • DVB-S delivery system detection
  • Fix audio and video track selection through libVLC
  • Fix system sleep issue on Mac OS X 10.5


Notes

Note that versions of VLC media player compatible with Mac OS X 10.1 to 10.6 are available from the developer site. The main download link here is version 2 for the 64 bit Intel version compatible with OS X 10.5 and above. However, you can find VLC Player for OS X 10.4.11 Intel Macs here. There is not, and there will never be, a version of VLC media player for Mac OS 9 say the developers.
 
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VLC media player 2.1.5 for Mac - Simply the best multi-format media player

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Simply the best multi-format media player

If you want to play video or music files in just about any format, VLC media player is probably your answer.

VLC media player 2.1.3

Features

Version 2 ("Twoflower") brings a new interface, faster decoding, support for more formats and the ability to play HD and BluRay. It still remains however the most stable, flexible and lightweight audio and video player around today. While other media players will play unusual formats after downloading a codec, or simply refuse to play things,
VLC media player handles tons of formats, from MPEG to FLV and RMBV files. Version 2 has seen some important additions too such as support for 10 bit codes plus multi-threaded decoding for H.264, MPEG-4/Xvid and WebM.
Also useful is the fact that you can use VLC media player to preview files you are downloading since it plays incomplete parts of video files. VLC media player is not just for video playback however. It also offers superb integration with video channel streaming services such as Channels.com giving you access to channels such as ESPN, Reuters and National Geographic. Just right-click or CMD-click on the playlist, select Services Discovery and Channels.com.
Channels.com will then appear in your VLC media player playlist. Click on it to reveal the the different categories of channels available. Click on the category you want and a drop down list of all available channels appears in VLC media player. Just click on the channel you want to watch and streaming should begin almost immediately.

Usability

VLC media player also has great hotkey support and if you take the time to learn the shortcuts so it can be controlled without touching your mouse. If you're watching DVDs or video files through it, this is not an issue. For music, it plays more or less any file and features an equalizer and playlist creation. VLC media player isn't as intuitive as iTunes as a media manager, but it's a much more flexible player in terms of file formats. You can even use VLC to convert your files, and on top of all the formats and physical media it will play, many streaming protocols and TV capture cards are supported.
VLC media player makes it easy to add subtitles to your video files too - just add the SRT file to the folder where your video is kept, and it will automatically play with subtitles.
Finally, the interface in VLC media player has been somewhat improved in version 2 although it remains strictly functional. However, you can download skins to completely change VLC media player's appearance. The preferences menu is comprehensive without being overwhelming, and there is extensive documentation online. 

VLC media player supports the following formats

MKV, WMV, MPEG, MP4, MOV, AVI, DIVX, XVID, FLV, FLAC, WAV, REAL, VOB plus many more

VLC media player 2.1.3

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